Daily Republican., 1887-05-16
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Tornsdoes-Laying OF . CORNERSTONE.
Guilty OF Conspracy-The Hudson to
DO Stocked with shad.
Policeman John Arnold was shot
dead, and Ernest !. Padgett, q com.
psniop, was wounded in AlexaDdris,
Virginia, about l o'cock on Sunday
morning, while trying to arreet two
men whom they overheard planning .
robbery, When they called on the
men to surrender both drew revolve,s
and fred. The one who shot Arnold
escaped; the other, who had u struggle
with Padgstt, was captured. aud ideD-
titled as John Curran, Of Washington.
He refused To tell the nnmo OF Ei1 nc
complice.
Tornsdots swept over Blue Springs
aud Papillion, Nebraska, on Friday
evening. In Blue Springs tho school.
house WAS demolished and it's janitor
fatally injured. Half an hour later .
girl yipg on . lounge near O window
wns killed by lightning. Al PApillion
several buildings were moved from
their foundations. A. j. Potter, a
hotel keeper, WAS killed by Lightning nj
| o ELL.
The corner stone of St. Patrick's
Catholic church wae laid on Sunday Of
i Elizabethpor., New jersey, in the
presence Of ten Thousand psople Bishop
Wigger efficiated, and WAS assisted by
Right Eev. Hilary PirenRle, Abbot OF
st. Mary's, Newark. Rev. Father Cod y
preached. The church ~ to be OF
granite, and TO cott $500. 600.
The Court OF Oyer and Terminer, In
Buffalo. met Sunday morning TO receive
the verdict OF the jury 10 the oil con-
piracy case. The verdict pronounced
Hiram b. Everest and Charles M. Ever
est, OF the Vacuum Oh Company, OF
Rochester, guilty OF conspiracy, az
charged IN the indictment. An appeal
will probably be taken.
The United States Fish Com mission
sent car from Washington last night
with 1900. COO shad eggs aud 800 600
shad fry for stocking the waters OF III nd
,0n river. Two million of the eggs will
be sent to Gold Harbor Station TO be
hatched, and the remainder TO Albany,
where the fry will be distributed.
Eiward J. Wheeler, aged 2S years,
an architect, committed suicide in Bal
,imore on Saturday night. by turning
on the eas In his room. While Waiting
Philadelphia few weeks ago, he WAS
knocked down aud robbed OF moaey
and jewelry, and he has bson melan-
choly ever since
At W.llir, Texas, early yesterday
morning, an armed mob hroke into the
all and opened tire on Andrew McGeehe
and j. Is. Walker, charged wi.n shoOt
ing q yoUnR man named Powcll. Mo
C4ehee WAS shot dead. and Walker b1d
~ wounded, but the latter may recover
John B Faesett and wifs, each xbout
90 yeara OF age, were burned to death In
their mill AT Mooreto near Water.
bury, Vermont, on Saturday night
The mill caught flIe. and She couple
| who had rooms over the saw depart
,nent, perish,d.
A passenger train collided with 9
wild" engine on the Mobile ard OniC
railroad, near Waynesboro, Mississippi
on Friday afternoon. Robert shep ault
fireman, was killed, and William Tew
Engineer, severely injured.
Heavy rains fsll throughout the Biz
GrAnde Valley during Saturday night
and a food WAS the consequence OF
Sunday. At Laredo a large ferryboa
Was sunk, AID the Custom Houss WA
washe1 away.
A. b. Chlsdek, an emplove ot tn,
Water Office in Chicago, committed
.uicide Oh Friday evening, by s@a,low
Ing cyan.de Of potassium. Ha had TO
some time suffered from gout and hear
disease.
VIM. A. S1nford hot and killei hi
l6 year.old son Hamle: near Washing
ton, Indiana, on Friday night. III
Iyouth was walking 10 his elcsp, aud hi
father, mistakiDg him for a burglar
fired.
Sixty thousand dollars worth c
Ismu2Rled opium was seized on til
Isteamer Rio Janei!o, from Hong Kong
at San Francisco, On FricAy last.
Tho boiler Of the Richmond Papa
Manufacturing Companv'd mil !
Richmond, Virginia, oatst on Frida
night, killing two men.
1t is announced that most Of th
Wamsutta Mills strikers in New Bs(
ford, Massachusetts, 'wiil give up al
go Har', ~ work" to-day.
Sy the capsixin2 of boat at Nj
wauk ee. on Friday, August Suelow al
Ferdinand Eush vert drowned.
Three distinct shocks Of ea,.bqual
were felt in Tucson, ArlgoI d, ou FL
lday afternoon. Tom oaiona wAs 81
: tnhakeu.
II Queen Kapiolani and suite arrived
/, New YoIb on Saturday FROM Boston.